Glossary
Virtual reality and robotics application

Behavioral interfaces

These are devices whose uses exploit human behavior.

Video headset (or immersive headset)

This is a visual interface worn by the user, who is visually immersed. A head orientation sensor displays the user's correct viewpoint in real time.

CAVE (CAVE automatic virtual environment)

It's a set of large, high-resolution screens surrounding the person, capturing the user's gestures.

Tesselation

It's a software operation that produces a configurable mesh that best approximates the analytical surface of the object model.

Multi-threading

Threading is a feature of operating systems that allows sub-programs of the same application to run simultaneously, independently of each other and at different frequencies, while still being able to transmit data to each other.